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No. 754,684. PATENTBD MAR. 15, 1904. H. A. NIEHOBP.

REGIS-TBR. APPLIOATION FILED 00T. 25, 1902.

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SPEGIFICATIONforming part of Letters Patent No. 7 54,684, dated March15, 1904.

Application led October 25, 1902. Serial No. 128,807. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern,.-

Be it known that I, HERMANN A. NIEHOFF,

la citizen of the United States, residing a Car- 'ers skilled in the artto which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had tothe accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which-Figure 1 is a view showing the cover turned back to expose the dailyindexes. Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the book shown in Fig. 1; andFig. 3 is a viewshowing the book open, only a portion of the length ofthe book being illustrated. n

My invention relates to registers, and is more particularly designed asa register for notes and the like.

My object is to provide a register of small size upon which the notes orthe like can be entered arranged according to the days upon which therespective notes fall due, so that in order to determine the notespayable upon a given day it is only necessary to turn to the proper pageor division of the register.

A further object is to so arrange each page or division of the registerthat it shows not only the dates of maturity of the particular notes,but also convenient or necessary data descriptive of the particularnotes and any memorandum that may have been made respecting any givennote. n

To these ends and also to improve generally upon devices of thecharacter indicated my invention consists in the various mattershereinafter described and claimed.,

Referring now more particularly to the drawings, co representsa folio ordivision of the register, said folio consisting ofwhat may be termed the"back a of one sheet and the front a2 of the next following sheet inorder to reduce the size of the book when closed, thev entries relatingto a given note extending across the entire folio or division, asindicated in Fig. 3, and the book when closed being of a width equal toone-half of the said folio or division. The pages are cutaway at theiredges in order to leave projections 1 for receiving an index character2, each succeeding projection being slightly longer than theimmediately.

heading-space are horizontal lines 6, which extend across the folio andproduce entryspaces 7.

A suitable number of vertical lines 8 divide the folio into appropriatecolumns, and these columns are properly designated by headings in theheading-space 5. rlwelve of the columns (the columns 9) have headingsindicating the months of the year, the spaces in the said columns beingadapted to receive data indicating a particular year. The remainingvertical columns are for necessary or desired data descriptive of anote, memoranda concerning the note, &c. Manifestly, in addition to theyear-datareceiving columns, any suitable number of columns can beprovided, and these columns can be adapted to contain descriptive dataof any character desired by the user of the register. In the presentembodiment of my invention, however,A I have shown the columns otherthan the year-data-receiving columns (which columns for convenience Ishall designate as descriptive-data-receiving columns) headed asfollows, the reading being from left to right: Nd, LDate, Maker orDrawer, Endorser or Surety, Amount, Discount Time, Date of Payment,Partial, Amount Paid Interest, Remarks i. I prefer to place the twelveyear-data-receiving columns between the columns headed Time and Date ofPayment, the columns descriptive of the note itself being together andupon one side of the year-data-receiving columns and the columnsrelating to time and amount of payment, together with the column forgeneral remarks or memoranda, being on the other side of saidyear-data-receiving columns.

The entries relating to different notes appear one below the other, andthe entries relating to a particular note appear in a horizontal lineacross the folio or division of the register. We will assume that onNovember Ioo 'registers containing overlapping dates.

5, 1900, A. B. made a note for five thousand dollars payable two yearsfrom its date. The note would therefore mature on the 5th of November,1902. Such a note would be entered upon the folio bearing the main indexdesignation for the day of the month upon which the note waspayable-viz. ,the 5th and in the year-data-receiving column with theindex or heading for November would be entered the year-data 1902. Allnotes in the register are therefore primarily indexed according to thedays upon which the particular notes fall due, and the divisions of theregister provided with the primary7 day-index designations havesubdivisions (the year-data-receiving columns) which are indexedaccording to months, the year-data in a particular subdivisioncooperating with the index designation of the said subdivision and theindex designation of the particular division (the folio) to determinethe definite date (year, day, and month) upon which a given note fallsdue. As the various notes are received they are entered in the mannerpreviously indicated. In order to determine the notes falling due upon agiven day, it is only necessary to open the register to the folio ordivision bearing the index character for said day, select the column forthe particular month, and note those entries in said column for theparticular year, thefull description of any note being found in thehorizontal line, including the desired year. In this manner it is onlynecessary for the note-clerk to turn each day to a particular folio ordivision of the register. Furthermore, by making the main indexaccording to days and the secondary index according to months, only acomparatively few cooperating date-data-receivin g columns arenecessary, while there is no danger of any two Of course the arrangementof indexes could be varied; but for the reasons just above indicated Iprefer the arrangement heretofore described, as serious difficultieswill be presented with any other arrangement. For example, if the folioswere indexed by months and the subdivisions 9 were indexed by days itwould bc necessary to providethirty-one such subdivisions upon eachfolio, and of course this would increase the width of the register. 1f,again, the subdivisions were indexed according to years instead ofaccording to months, it is possible that a filled register would containthe entry relating to a note payable at a later date than a note theentry concerning which appears in the current register, and it wouldtherefore be necessary for the note-clerk to examine several registerseach day instead of simply one register.

The present register is small and convenient to handle, provides forconvenient entry of a note as soon as the same is received, presentsfull data relating to a given note in alined entry-spaces, and makes itpossible for the noteclerk to quickly select the notes due upon aparticular day by turning to simply one division of the single register.

I am aware that many minor changes in the construction, arrangement, andcombination of the several parts of my device can be made andsubstituted for those herein shown and described without in the leastdeparting from the nature and principle of my invention.

Thile for convenience the main divisions of the register are shown asfolios, it will be manifest that all of the matter appearing upon afolio could be placed upon a single page without departing from thespirit of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

A register for notes and the like comprising a book having a pluralityof leaves, each leaf being provided with a proper designating characterto indicate the day of the month, and each leaf being ruled to provide aplurality of separate columns and successively designated for dataindicative of the number of the note, the date, the drawer or maker, theindorser or surety, the amount, discount and time which the note is torun, and separate parallel columns designated for data indicatingdifferent months of the year, and additional columns, one of which isfor data indicating when the note is to be paid, another for the amountpaid, and a separate column indicating interest; substantially asdescribed.

In testimony whereof l hereunto ax my signature, in the-presence of twowitnesses, this 23d day of October, 1902.

. HERMANN A. NIEHOFF.

Witnesses:

(Ji-ALES P. Moons, GEORGE BAKEWELL.

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